Rachel Davis

Ms. Rachel Davis joined IPI in November 2007 to manage the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) program. She works with Dr Edward Luck (IPI’s Vice-President) in his role as the UN Special Adviser on Responsibility to Protect.

Before joining IPI, Rachel was a Research Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and served as a legal adviser to the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, Prof John Ruggie. Prior to that, Rachel was a legal officer in the Federal Attorney-General’s Department, Australia. She has experience with both domestic and international legal bodies, having worked in the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and at the High Court of Australia.

Rachel has degrees from Harvard University (LL.M.), where she held a Gammon Fellowship, and the University of New South Wales (B.A. in Politics and International Affairs; LL.B.), and is a qualified attorney. Rachel has published a number of legal articles, with a particular focus on the rights of Indigenous peoples.